what is the status of having Viasat2 come on line and be available for existing customers?

what is the status of having Viasat2 come on line and be available for existing customers? My speeds have only slowed down the last two months and is very frustrating. I have two 150G Liberty plans, I am a home based worker and the sluggishness of the system is impeding my ability to do my job effectively. I'm using email, sending/receiving files from work, and doing research on the internet. I use a VPN as well to get into my work systems. everything is SLOW as molasses. I measured 5 up and 2 down yesterday. It's so frustrating. If COX ever came here, I would reduce these two plans to the minimum necessary to live out my contract and get COX in a heartbeat. I've even been tempted to go work at a nearby Starbucks to camp on to their internet so that I can get things done. I shouldn't have to do that given what I pay each month to EXEDE for two plans at maximum allowable speed/data

It's currently scheduled to come online in early 2018; however despite a lot of subscriber excitement and speculation here, no public announcements have been made regarding plans, increased data allowances, pricing or potential migration charges (or considerations such as new contract term) have been announced.

See any of the actual ViaSat employee responses for some further discussion in:

Oh how lucky and fortunate you are to have cable type services offered in your area! I will jump dish for that! even when cell service reaches us, it will offer us unlimited data and slightly better [more stable] service as the three in our area have been running several years and have become good service providers that I see are good enough for streaming video for movies, but the latency of the dish still lags in the upload. sighi will hop as they offer unlimited data [true unlimited with No slow down from overuse] :) still cable is much much better. when living in the woods - cables wont reach this far out. I do envy the cable services

That's unfortunately one major annoyance with Cable. They sometimes WILL expand into smaller communities but for them if the potential revenue won't make them a certain amount of money over the expansion they simply will not expand to that area. They determine how many "passings" there are in the expansions and the hypothetical revenue and if it's not there they won't go there. ESPECIALLY with the current fiber optics/ hybrid connections they do now, some of that expansion can rack up more money than I'll ever see in my lifetime.

My bet is that we the current customer will not see any change, only the new customers. They take us for granted and have gotten by giving us poor service so why not continue? I may cancel and sign up under new name and see if put on different beam.

So far, all we do know for sure is that new, better plans will be available and, that moving to VS2 will require new equipment, at the least a new modem and TRIA, possibly a new dish as well so, it may not be free to move to the new satellite.

If the new plans that may be offered on VS1 also require new equipment, that might not be free to switch either, it would involve a service call to get new equipment.

It needs to reach longitude -69.9 (69.9 West which is just about over the Columbia/Brazil border along the equator) and settle in to its final altitude. I've modified the link to also include ViaSat-1 for reference purposes. Those are the NORAD ids in the query string.

I can't attest to its accuracy, but it also provides some other useful info if you customize your own location.

Don't worry that appears to be heading west of its final destination - that's just the way placing things into geostationary orbit works depending on the transfer orbit being used. Specifically you can't just go to the altitude above the equator and take a left or right. But when moving at under 2 mph it takes time. Fascinating stuff for those who Google it and it is indeed rocket science (much harder than driving out to a corn field and erecting a cell tower).

P.S. Be careful of the data usage on that site - don't linger too long if pressed for data ;)

Update: After a lot of googling on placing a satellite into orbit and trying to wrap my head around it, the layman's version of what's being visualized at that link in 2-D is basically that ViaSat-2 when viewed from directly above like looks like a giant game of The Wall as they attempt to guide and drop the ball into the million dollar slot.

Over the course of the day you'll see its relative position change along the yellow line and over the course of many days you'll see the yellow line get shorter.

And data use on the site really isn't all that bad as long as you avoid the high def satellite imagery

OMG, here it is at 1109 on August 18 and ViaSat-2 is headed straight toward ViaSat-1... there gonna crash - somebody let George Clooney and Sandra Bullock know ;)